Lia Biehl Lukkarinen Director of Golf | Western Illinois University Leathernecks Website
Lia Biehl Lukkarinen Director of Golf | Western Illinois University Leathernecks Website
CORAL SPRINGS, Florida – The Western Illinois University women's golf team received high marks from the Women's Golf Coaches Association, with five members named to the 2023-24 Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team. Gabriela Galindo Rubio, Hannah Butler, Olivia Kerr, Natalie Hooper, and Makayla Mussatto were each honored.
As a team, the Leatherneck women's golf program had a spring Grade Point Average of 3.817.
The 2023-24 Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team honored 1,497 women's collegiate golfers from 412 programs recognized with this prestigious honor.
The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics and continue to demonstrate the high-level academic achievements of players. To be selected, a student-athlete must:
Have an overall cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher.
Be an amateur and on the team's roster through the conclusion of the team's season.
Have played in 50% of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year nominated through the team's conference championship.
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